Potential severe heatwave next week. (week of 21st July)

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

Something to really watch. GFS model is really looking a bit crackers next week with high temps of perhaps 35c mid week and night minima in the mid 20s. I'll post more tomorrow, but it doesn't look like the traditional school holiday cool down

White Dust ~ today, mostly the S and SE but really anywhere from the Midlands southwards could see 27/28C. The country will really feel the heat though on Thursday ~ Netweather's Max temperatures for Thursday.

YesQueen ~ that might be the thing to do!

I think people feel the heat differently like the poster who said coat weather at 20 degrees.

I lived in Australia for a couple of years and when it got down to 20 degrees we had the log burner going and big jumpers on!!

Moved back here last year and I now find 20 degrees very pleasant not chilly.

I also think it takes a while to get used to the heat. In September it feels chilly at 19/20 but in April it feels lovely and warm!

We’re up to a 37 degree forecast for Thursday which is going to be tricky.

Here we go. The sun has come round on to the windows. Curtains shut.

My colleagues have complained the air con is too cold so I now have a fan on. Hoping for better sleep tonight

I'm up to 32.5c at my weather station.

It must be warm. My dad is reminiscing about "1976 when I slept in the garden. Now that was a summer"

Found a shaded bit of the garden with a bit of a breeze. It’s quite nice rather than sweltering hot.

Forecast for Thursday in this bit of Leicestershire has gone back up to 35 degrees. Met office had briefly revised it down.

One of the models (arpege) has ramped things up even further to 39c on Thursday.

Yikes, yes my iPhone weather app (don’t know who they use) now says 39 for London for Thursday. I remember the year it was over 100 degrees in old money was it 2003? I guess that was 37ish C if I’m remembering correctly.

Thursday is forecast 34 here. Phew!

Netweather's storm forecast.

Delatron ~ I seem to remember the summer of 2003 as being a record- breaking one as DD2 was only a few months old at the time and we didn't even venture into the back garden during the day, as it was just too hot.

My weather station says we reached 31.5C here (Leicester) this afternoon. If we don't get any rain tonight from overnight thunderstorms, I'm considering getting to the allotment around 7am tomorrow to do a huge watering session!

The German weather service is thinking there may be a series of consecutive 40 degree days here*, which would be unprecedented.

Am fortunately in a cooler area. A very manageable* 31-32ish today.

**For me - I appreciate not for everyone.

I usually enjoy the heat, but not this time. I'm in the South East and about 30 in the shade. I just conked out this afternoon. Can't shift a bad headache. Sleeping in the garden is quite appealing!

Sorry about the random bolding. Should have been Am fortunately in a cooler area. A very manageable * etc.

Catte

Met Office forecast for Fri has gone from 21 to 24 - have they been listening to you oybbk?!

The previous all time record was 38.5c in 2003. I'm not sure that we will beat that. We may, but my feeling is probably not.
I hope I'm not eating my sunhat Thursday night

That storm forecast does tally quite well with my feelings. Keeping an eye on: www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en

Apparently it's still 26 degrees here in Cheshire, it feels like it too 🥵

Still 30c here to :(

Rather than updating two threads I'll keep everything to do with this week here.
Incoming storms? One showing in the far SW just to contradict what I said on the storm thread.

The www.lightningmaps.org site is very good. I can see the storms coming up from France and they might reach me. The clicks are increasing - almost like a Geiger counter.

We (DS and I) got stuck in a train with no air conditioning between Bordeaux and Toulouse this afternoon. Never been so hot in my life. We fortunately had brought a litre bottle of water than we used to wet our clothing and they were handing out free bottles of drinking water.

Christ its brutal.

Migraine today.

Predicting 35 in Leicestershire on Thursday....